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Tuesday, May 29, 2007

Prof Starbird Mathematics Courses

I'm a big fan of courses produced by The Teaching Company, so I bet similarly-minded blog readers might also enjoy such courses. My favorite instructor is Prof Michael Starbird. I noticed that three of his four courses are on sale until 14 June:

"Coincidences, Chaos, and All That Math Jazz: Making Light of Weighty Ideas" sounds interesting. A good story about chaos/entropy/thermodynamics is "the last question" by Isaac Asimov.If you really like calculus, and you want to read some theory you should read:Vector Calculusby Jerrold E. Marsden, Anthony J. Tromba